A couple of days ago, I attempted to view some photos on Google StreetView but I realised they use Flash instead of SVG like Google Maps. Frustrated, then I came up with the idea of running Opera portable version with Wine.

I was using Opera portable exclusively when I hadnt migrated to the BSD world. Its a complete package; it contains mail, personal settings...and plugins. So I thought, sounds very "Wine friendly" and why dont I give it a try.

Unfortunately, its very slow on Google StreetView (I guess because there are too many Flash "actions" and it slows down the Wine rendering), but for videos, it works!

Experiences videos with Flash 9:

- No audio sync issue.

- Minor lagging (but I do experience the lag on Flash 7, so pretty sure its because of my 1.2Ghz Pen M cpu. It would be very smooth on powerful CPUs).

- No freezing problem, you will feel like running another browser. The wine processes take less than 50% cpu usage

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I want to keep my Opera settings and bookmarks. Will it be enough just to do:
cp -r ~/.opera opera951en/profile

Yes, also exclude these dirs from backup they just take extra space and do not add anything to you profile:

Code:

~/.opera/opcache
~/.opera/images
~/.opera/vps
~/.opera/cache4

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivanatora

How can I enable the scroll click to paste? Currently it tries to scroll the page (windows style).

You cant, WINE implements windows API and in windows version of opera middle click is scroll.

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Nice.
I want to keep my Opera settings and bookmarks. Will it be enough just to do:
cp -r ~/.opera opera951en/profile

How can I enable the scroll click to paste? Currently it tries to scroll the page (windows style).

Yes. Opera setting files are pretty much identical across flatforms. In fact, all the Opera settings in my FreeBSD atm were inherited from Windows Opera version last year. Just remember to make a backup, just in case

I just moved ~/.opera between BSDs, Mac OS X and Linux, so they are all very similar, I did not tried win <-> nix migration.

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So the ONLY way to use the clipboard with Wine (and optionaly the rest of the system) is ctrl+c and ctrl+v?

If you find other way then let me know

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